The tiny bits of plastic that wear off bottles, plastic bags, automotive parts and even cosmetics get into the soil and the water supply. They disrupt chemical cycles, throw off ecosystem health and ...

What Future for Flying Plastic Bags? Supreme Court ponders single-use bag bans By Michael King, Fri., Jan. 26, 2018. Tweet. print. write a letter. Plastic bag people in 2012 (Photo by Jana Birchum) ...

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Nakuru, Kenya — In the open-air Wakulima Market thin plastic shopping bags have disappeared, banished by Kenya’s national bag ban. Produce sellers in this busy agricultural hub 95 miles ...

California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California's original ban made things worse.

But in 2023, the colorful, single-use plastic bags are piling up in the Dadach Boshe dump, which serves Marsabit County, with a population of about half a million. What's more, as strong winds send ...

To the editor: Here are two reasons the state’s ban on single-use plastic grocery bags is failing. First, except for a handful of ardent environmentalists, no one living in Los Angeles gives a ...

There is an argument that California already has the tools it needs to get rid of plastic bags, though it’s a bit convoluted. The original ban in 2014 allowed grocery stores to hand out thicker ...

Since they don’t go away, the plastic bits creep into air, water, soil, plants, animals and our own bodies.” Some senators raised concerns about the financial impacts of the bag ban. “This is going to ...